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Black salve, red salve and cansema
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19 March 2012
Update
New Zealand's medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe, has published information about black salve on its website.
The Medsafe statement includes information about a data summary comparing treatment with black salve to conventional surgery1 and details of published case reports of effects experienced by consumers using black salve.
Reference
1 Eastman KL, McFarland LV, Raugi GJ. 2013. A review of topical corrosive Black Salve. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 18:DOI:10.1089/acm.2012.0377
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